THIS VIDEO IS NOT CLICKBAIT !! SOMETHING WAS WALKING AROUND ARE TENTS.

I was camping near Bremer Bay in Western Australia and had a similar experience. I got woken up by someone walking next to my tent in the middle of the night, was definitely a person because I could see their silhouette standing right next to me through the tent material. They were standing there quietly then all of a sudden they started urinating onto my tent, I was so upset I yelled and jumped out of my tent thinking it was going to be some drunken idiot.... Well it was a kangaroo... A kangaroo pissed all over my tent. 😂

This happened to me a couple of years ago. I’ve been backpacking for half a century and have never ever had any problems or nothing that scares me, unless it’s an aggressive buck. But a couple of years ago I took my grandson on his 1st backpacking trip. 1st night went fine. I had put a small padlock on the two zipper pulls on the door just in case my grandson decided to get up so he couldn’t unzip the door. I had brought my dog, 100 lb Akita, who slept in the tent with us. 1st night we heard animals softly walking around our little campsite. 2nd night about 1am I woke up to my dog very softly growling and I heard footsteps walking around. Not animal but human. He circled the tent a couple of times, then tried to unzip the door. He seemed baffled that it wouldn’t unzip. I say he because his breathing definitely sounded male. He went around to the window, which was open but the netting was in place. When he started fiddling with the window, I gave the signal for my dog to bark. At the same time I shined my flashlight in his face and pointed at gun at him. I told him run or I’ll let my dog out and shoot you. He ran. Yes, it was a man. I sat up the rest of the night. Thank goodness my son showed up to join us the next morning. I wanted to leave but he wanted to see if he showed up that night. He didn’t. Maybe just a random hiker, at 1am or someone followed us. I haven’t been backpacking since. The world has changed. I’ll face a cougar but not a strange man at 1am sneaking around my tent that isn’t in a public campground

I’m not even listening to the guy explaining what he’s doing, I’m just reading the comments 😂

My sister and her husband were not in a tent, but a small cabin in a remote area of Arizona. In the middle of the night they heard two loud shotgun-like bangs (WHOOOMPF WHOOMPF) right outside. They froze with fear. Then they heard two more, and then another. They were too scared to go outside and in too much of a remote area to call for any kind of help. They had no weapons. After a sleepless night they discovered in the morning that they left their beer in the freezer and it had all exploded.

I always carry a baby monitor with me, settled 3 metres away from my tent.Night vision, waterproof, works like magic.🤠

Been here for half an hour reading people’s experiences. Some very scary stories to say the least. I should probably watch the video now

Is it weird that I'm watching this at midnight while in the middle of the woods trying to distract my self from what ever had beem lurking around my camp site for the past 2 hours

Oh I was camping in the Scottish Highlands once....middle of nowhere. Heard footsteps walking round and round my tent at 3am. I was absolutely terrified. Turned out to be cattle. Embarrassing... as I grew up on a farm 🤣🤣

Had a similar thing fishing in France years ago, the locals had warned us about wild boar in the area, not really an issue I've had boar in camps before as soon as you make noise they run off. Woke up in the night by something that sounded huge digging around in the bushes behind my tent. I near craped myself it sounded so big. Shouted out and made some noise in tent, normally enough to scare animals off even wild boar, it didn't run off and only paused for few seconds. After about 10 minutes I finally got up the guts to jump out my tent with my torch. It was a feckin hedgehog digging through the brambles at the back of my tent😂

Can't beat laying snug in sleeping bag in a tent listening to the rain - so soothing

I don't think anyone should go camping alone as there so many creeps out there so glad you are safe

Done a solo wild camp in a very thick and remote forest in Scotland in 2002 and there was clearly two people walking around my tent about 3am (I heard them whispering to each other), at first I thought they were maybe just passing whilst out on a night hike to where i have no idea but I heard them again an hour later, I just lay in my sleeping bag all night trying not to be sick clutching my swiss army knife. When morning came there was a weird pattern made with sticks outside my tent which I now understand to be a satanic pentagram. I was always an avid outdoorsman but have never been a solo trip since. Strange people seem to show up almost everwhere on earth, I’ve never actually told this story to anyone other than my wife and brother

I've slept in the woods a lot. Also in bear and wolf areas. Sweden, Poland, Germany etc. I rarely use tents and usually sleep openly or under a tarp. 90% of the time some animal sneaks around the camp at night. You can hear mice, foxes or even birds. In the dark it all sounds like Big Foot.

Isn't it amazing how we can quickly discover that we still have all our primal instincts (and fears) when we find ourselves out there in the wild ?

I thought i was getting followed once in snowdonia by a group of young backpackers with cans of beer id seen earlier. After setting up camp,after last light, i left a light on inside the closed tent and sat watching from a couple of hundred meters away. Sure enough they came close throwing stones and trying to scare me. The last laugh was mine though when i scared the shit out of them by banging rocks together.

Last fall I took my 9 year old son on our first backpacking trip in the Oregon wilderness. It was night two, 10 miles in and we had a large lake to ourselves. We set up camp in a dense area of trees about 100 feet off the lake. It was cloudy that evening and when the sun set it was pitch black outside. Around 3 am I was awakened to loud footsteps I could feel and hear getting closer to our small tent. The ground was full of roots from trees so we could really feel the vibrations of something moving. I thought it was a black bear at first because it felt and sounded so big, I slowly and quietly grabbed my pistol And had it ready in case I needed it. Those few moments when the creature was quiet, as I listened, I was almost deafened by my thumping heartbeat. All of the sudden I heard an ear piercing noise of air being blown out of a snout that caused the blood to leave my face. I still didn’t move and whatever it was made the noise again, I finally got the courage to say “hey bear, you better get going” and seconds later I had sticks breaking and something moving through the dense bush up the hill away from us. I didn’t sleep the rest of the night. The next morning I found big deer tracks around camp. Apparently deer make that noise sometimes. It’s crazy how vulnerable you feel wrapped in a bag laying on the ground with some thin tent material to “protect you”. Freaked me out but we moved lakes and slept one more night out there. I have since been back with two of my boys a few weeks ago and felt much better about getting over the bump in the night incident. Sometimes you just need to keep facing your fears and eventually you get over them.

Dan, I've had bears, wolves, moose, deer, and porcupines wander into my camp but. I think hearing what I thought was a fellow human being wandering around my tent in the middle of the night, would add a whole new feeling of apprehension and primal fear. Of all the predators out there man is the most unpredictable of all. I recently heard that two seniors wild camping in their camper van on a quiet road woke up to an extremely loud bang at 2 am, turns out some yobs had thrown bricks through the side windows and windscreen of their van at the same time. It scared them so much, they were thinking of selling off the campervan. It can be unnerving not knowing what is out there as you lay vulnerable in your tent. Take care out there Dan!

long time forestry worker, slept in many tents over the years, come across many critters, bears get curious, wolves and coyotes wont really bother, mooses will attack the tent, out of all that i think the worst encounter was a army of racoons, and waking up to the big boy of the group unzipping my tent and reaching his little hand in looking for a snack.

My father used to go on long hikes over several days in the South of France. He was a very wary man who always refused to bring a tent and only slept in trees or in rock cavities, always with visibility of what was ahead and to the sides. He never slept where he ate and avoided light sources as much as possible. On two occasions he saw strange men roaming alone in the middle of the night, more than 20km from the nearest house. They were neither hikers nor hunters. Once he felt like he was being followed even though night had fallen and he was still walking with dim light. He crept into a bush and waited. Three minutes later a man took the same path, without a backpack, without a lamp and being careful not to walk too loudly. He was a very tough man and he has never gone back for a multi-day hike again.

My wife son and I used to go camping regularly during the summer months. On on such trip to Wells next to the sea we had put up our tent spent time on the beach then returned to make bacon butties for a late tea/supper. then we went to bed I went straight to sleep after a days driving. Then Bang Crash clatter! Intruder in the tent I got the heaviest thing available a two cell torch and un zipped the bedroom compartment door looked round and there it was! A big Hedgehog rifling through the empty plates and the frying pan! I took it out put it under the hedge and went back to bed Ten minutes later it all kicked off again the same hedgehog back in the tent. I had to open the car and put all the pots and pans in the car boot then carry the hedgehog some distance from the tent! what a night!

People are generally unlikely to stumble across you at night unless you’re in an obvious spot, or they’ve seen you going in. I’m always careful about where and ( importantly) when I pitch camp. Bit of scrim net is also useful to break up the shape of the tent. ...

Wipe the zip down with a baby wipe, let dry and use a normal soft lead pencil. The graphite will allow the zip to run smooth and will not pick up dirt like candle wax. Stove looks mint.

Camped at a well known rest area one night in the semi arid desert of the Northern Territory. 2 busloads of 18 year olds from Europe turned up, and were excited to sleep under the stars instead of their tents. They had a great time. Clear night, the heavens full of stars = a magical time.

In the southern states of the US we just say, “I’m trying to sleep, if you wake me up again I’m shooting”

I was camping north of Flagstaff, AZ when we heard something walking around our tent and car (glamping). I pulled out my handgun and racked the slide as loud as I could. Heard a voice say ‘let’s GtFOH’ and the footsteps went away. Finally peaked my head out the tent and saw a light bouncing around in the trees about 300 yards away.

Love the sound of the rain on a tent ❤😊

I remember tenting at the New Forest many years back, woke up with stupid Horses brushing up against my tent. Sounded like the Demons had crawled out of hell lol

That little stove is the cutest!! 🦌💚🦌

I always camp with an air horn. An air horn SOLVES all your nighttime visitor problems.

This is why i use aspects of stealth camping no matter how i am camping. Especially solo

Nice setup. Thanks for taking me along.

That little woodstove is a gem. It would've been great to have the times I was in the Maine woods in need of heat and cooking. It's kind of pretty with glass door.

Flashed me back to Kern River Valley in California. Heard world's largest bear outside my tent moving around. After a few moments, I opened my tent to an eagle staring at me.

Sorry for the unsettled night. We have armadillos where I live, and they make a huge racket foraging through the leaves. Scared me to death the first time I was camping, but now when I hear them they make me smile and put me at ease -- I know that if they are around then nothing bigger than them is around. :) Hope you get your dream tent back in tip top shape.

About 7-8yrs ago a woman I worked with had her nephew "pass away". Turned out he enjoyed camping solo, he went up near Heinze Dam at the back of the gold coast in QLD, Australia. His body was found mutilated by knife wounds in his tent, attacked while sleeping. Horrible for the family, i cant imagine. I subscribe to a British ladies YT channel wild something,, and she solos all the time. Man or woman, its not good to be alone in the woods (bush). 😮

I ALWAYS have things creeping around me at night, but I live in the US and camp in a massive forest, alone. Things come out and I often include them in my videos. It is fun to watch other people sharing similar experiences. I loved this video.

Enjoyed your vlog Dave. With regard to security around the tent I use what Carp fishermen use. Bite alarms. You can set up loads around you to alarm the way you want !!!

The stove is a different design from twig stoves: a broad base of embers and a tower of flame make a lot of concentrated heat at the top of the tube. Thank you for showing us something different on the market.

Love that little stove! ❤

Genuinely have been attacked whilst wild camping some years ago, middle of the night a group of lads kicked the shit out of the tent I was in, and obviously I couldn’t get out because I was wrapped up in it. They thought it was hilarious and ran off, I was terrified, being alone and in the middle of fields miles from anyone. I can only assume they were lamping and stumbled across me.

I've had this happen before at my camp before too, and it's a VERY unsettling experience.

Went camping with my girlfriend a few weeks ago in a super remote area in Nevada. Drove 30 miles down a closed road to get to some hot springs. My little awd suv took a beating getting into the campsite, but it was late and we were determined to find what looked like some pristine and large pools! Oddly, I slept unusually well, it was nice and cold out but we had lots of blankets and a good sleeping bag. Another reason was because I figured there was an extremely low chance of anyone being out there. We had even driven down a road to get to a little hidden campsite. I woke up with a start at 6am when it was barely light out and peaked out the tent while saying something loud and unintelligible. It was a herd of (wild?) donkeys checking out our car and tent. Also, turned around to look at the car to see one of the tires completely flat. Had to change it, but worried the spare wouldn’t hold up!

Camping in Alberta at Pickle Jar Lake one time and we didn't hear a thing, we went to bed and there was no snow, when we got up there was 2 feet of snow, as we went to the bathroom there was a circle around the tent from a huge grizz.

I've been hunting, fishing and camping all round the uk I can mostly tell the difference between animal and or human once I woke up about 2am to the sound of something I had never heard before after laying there for a few min it got louder and all of a sudden I revises it was a lion I jumped up and thought I was hearing things this went on for hours and I bearly slept a wink eventually I fell back asleep when I got up in the morning I realised I has only about a mile away from a safari park and what I heard was indeed a lion.. always makes me laugh the first time people hear a muntjac screaming in the breading season I lost count of the amount of times I've woken up to mates saying they haven't slept a wink as they thought someone was being murdered I sleep through most of it nowadays

Dan get yourself a couple of trail cams to cover the front and back of your tent and campsite. It would give you some peace of mind to see what’s out there. Take care keep up the good work love your videos.

Thank for sharing this

In Texas, we have armadillos that come through the woods like tanks. They’re super loud!

Keep them coming Dan, they may not be the most polished KZfaq videos but that’s why I like them, you saying it as it is with no scripted b.s. is what I like.

Use the damaged bag to cut a few patches and glue them over the holes on the inside. That way its the same colour.

Great video thanks for sharing I really like to watch camping overnight videos

me.and my partner wont camp anymore unless on a proper campsite after we were woken at around 3am by footsteps around our tent and heard male voices sounded like they were rummaging through what equipment we had left outside the tent. never again it made mw realise just how vulnerable we were. very scary !!

I love that stove!! I want to get one. I like the idea of the heat AND the cooking ability.

I was out the other night, weather was clear and the woods sounded like a jungle. Woke up to heavy footsteps, sounded human but it was actually a deer. Second time it's happened to me this year already.

So far, so good. I like this . Thank you for sharing. Interesting.

I'm not sure if being waken up like that or sleeping through something like that is worse. I woke up to a party the animals had with my trash that I thought I'd secured and heard nothing. If it'd been something bad or would have gotten me. Edited to add: I've heard so many accounts of people cutting tents to remove sleeping children I put mine with me in a double sleeping bag. He can't go anywhere without me knowing and nobody can get to him without going through me but I don't want him to have to live with that.

It's a nice little stove that does it all...from heating to cooking to ambiance. It's cute with its decorations the 🦌 deer and the ✨ stars at the end. I saw Grizzly Gaz has something similar.

I agree 100% the cooking and eating outdoors brings out something primal. It's fun and can be really peaceful and therapeutic.

The holes can be patched with Sugru inside and out. The zip can be fixed by running a candle or wax crayon on both sides of the zip. Use Nikwax on the main tent and seam sealant on all the seams. It should be good to go.

It happened to me too. I would do the7 hour drive up to the Ocoee River to kayak and would park on a forest service road. It was wide, so I wouldn't block it in an emergency. I was actually told about this place by a forest ranager. I would arrive around 2 am, set up my tent and go to sleep. After several visits, I was awakened by a car door slamming and footsteps. Walked past the tent and then it got quiet. Well, it turned out that it was bow hunters going in at dark to set up. Very unnerving to say the least. As it got colder, the hunters were carrying guns.

Love the stove / pan combo! A Y shaped stick stuck in the ground would give the long handle some support and avoid tipping. You could use that to move the main pan off the heat and create a spot with less intense heat. Great video mate, thanks for sharing!

A bar of soap is what I use on all of my zippers and it works great any old bar soap will do just rub it along the teeth and it'll do just fine. Happy camping!

What a great deal on the tents! Very happy for you. Asome video.

I had a similar experience and noticed someone walking around my tent quietly... i jumped outside with my flashlight and it turned out to be a COW! it scared the living crap out of me. 🤣 i felt better knowing there were a few curious cows sleeping a few feet away from my tent.

Thanks for the video Dan, not sure what's with all the downvotes. Keep up the good work mate me and the family enjoy your videos.

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious stove ! Awesome!!!

Im a 60 year old, experienced camper,ex Infantry soldier..So i hope you dont mind me making a few points to put your mind, ,and others minds, who had similar experiences at rest ....i see many video experiences like this top.. However, do remember in future, that Noise is always louder at night time. Thus , what sounds like a human outside your tent in a remote area ,in the rain is very most likely to be a curious animal. I been in many similar situations similar all around the world in many conditions, wether holiday camping, or being in war zones where worry of being compromised is a constant threat. We too would always here noises that sound like enemy walking around our positions,that would alert us. However ,Using Night Vision goggles, every time it would be curious animals. Its because we are in their environment, they come to check us out so to speak,to see of we a threat to them..

Great video Dan, love your new stove looks great! Stay safe mate

I go Camping sometime help my stress and make me feel alot better. Good video thanks for sharing

I like that tent it's really great. Looks good, too.

While I was camping alone in Sweden, few years ago, some elks were wondering around my tent at night and this REALLY creeped me out... 🙈

Happened me a couple of times. Nothing as scary really. Although one time we were awakened at sunrise by the sound of automatic gunfire, and it wasn't too far away either. Turns out the area we were camping in was used for "training" by paramilitaries (I'm from N.Ireland)

I'm so happy U love that tent ❤

Very nice little stove you got there! I love the deer pattern on the front of it.

Who else thinks Dan needs an outdoor WildLife Camera for his ventures ?! 💤💯👍🐯🐅🐆🐈‍⬛🐈🦁🦓🦬

Saw a story of two hiker girls thst got me terrified. Around the middle of the night they heard noises walking around their separate tents and thought it was the other one going to pee, so neither said anything. I can’t remember how the interaction started but I think the strange man opened one of the tents and say he thought they were his ‘friends’, which he said giggling. She shook him off and he left. They woke up in the Morning and talked about it, still scared. Only when packing up did they see the man cowboy sleeping not farther than a few yards from them…. God! I’m a dude and go hiking alone but fuck if any laws stop me from bringing self defense items. No one’s touching my bum

As soon as i seen that wood stove i ordered one for me and my son. Thats the coolest little stove i have ever seen. ❤

So loving your stove!💕

Could have been a deer, I've wild camped a lot and heard some weird noises but when I popped my head out crack of dawn it was a family of deer. Nice stove. Happy camping👍

I believe you. I do a lot of camping here in Oregon and Washington U.S.A. and the only thing that was truly dangerous was the a hole I made the mistake of inviting to camp with me. I have a little dog that sleeps with me in my sleeping bag, she’s definitely a radiator so soft and cuddly.

I love your channel friend.thank you for sharing with everyone 👍❤️

When you was cutting wood I saw ahead other guy. He was picked wood and camping there too. Great video, the ⛺ tent are very great. Thank you.

My first time i'd encounter a creepy things during camping..In the middle of the night I heard a sound with different tone that keeps me awake..as I listened carefully I found out that it was coming from the other tent..my friend snooring loudly like he has an orchestra inside him😂😂😂😂

Creepy stuff! Normally sleeping in a tent with rain coming down would be ideal sleeping conditions, but not with twigs breaking underneath the feet of something lurking outside.

That stove is the coolest thing. Good find!

Thank you for the videos . Enjoyable can watch again n again . Good continuos mate

I love this stove. Nice equipment sir. Good job

Yeah it’s scary. I was in a sleeping bag next to the fire no tent. Woke up in the morning to heavy canine breathing in my ear. I peeked out of my bag and saw coyote feet and legs everywhere. Looked like about ten of them. I jumped up and screamed like a banshee. All I saw was dust going around a curve in the trail. I think I scared them worse than they scared me but it was not a fun way to wake up.

The tent is nice. A little beeswax or Vaseline will take care of the zipper just fine. Now I LOVE the stove. Perfect for a tent! Really great looking too. I like your set up here. Great video

Very cool woodstove! It works very well! I could smell the food lol

Cool little stove. I need one like that for my house when power goes out

I don't go into the wilderness at all unless I have my dog with me. He's a stout lab/pit mix with the face of a sweet lab but has the body of a muscled pitbull. As result, people keep a wide berth even though he is generally adult friendly. One day, I was hiking a trail with him just after a light rain so it was misty and wet which meant not a lot of people where going to be around. Though the woods were beautiful, I was slightly creeped out since i couldn't see too far ahead due to the mist. As I'm walking, I see a hooded figure ahead of us on the trail. It spots us and darts into the woods. Unfortunately, I can turn back because at this point me and my dog are heading back to the car which was another 10 minute walk ahead of us. So I have it in my mind maybe it was a jogger and not some creep that was going to attack us and I could no longer see this person anymore anyway. About 2 minutes or so after we pass the spot I intially saw the hooded figure, my dog suddenly whips around and starts growling menacingly. I've never seen him do this so it startles me and I look back. It's the hooded figure again and he's a few paces behind us. He looks like his face is dirty and he's clutching something tightly in his hand. I tell him my dog is not friendly (a lie) and that he needs to keep his distance otherwise my dog will lunge and I'm worried I can't hold him. The hooded figure doesn't respond and my dog starts to get really angry. This seems to convince the figure and it turns around and walks in the other direction. Needless to say I have my dog all the best dog food and treats i could find in the petstore that day

Dan get yourself some Tenacious Tape for the holes in the tent you can use it for jackets. air mats etc. and silicon spray for your zippers 🇦🇺🙃👍

Very cool little stuff, my man. It looks very useful and easy to use. I know it took some time to cut the wood. But you had that thing up and running in no time. Very cool thanks for sharing

that's a Kool little wood stove , big fire out the top though and a small area on top to boil water or cook something , oh i see a holder for the top part for cooking stuff , very kool

To fix your zip .. There are two flat glides on the back of the zip , sometimes they splay out , get a flat pliers and make the guides square against the rest of the steel in the zip . . Just go easy as it's weak metal , squeeze the two guides and shape them square . . Fixes every zip type . . I do it a bit at a time , run the zip through a few times . It's not the plastic zip that's the problem it's the splayed guide .

The unsuspecting visitor walking around my tent: My unsuspected 50. AE glock aiming it at the direction of where the steps are:

The little stow is nice, i really like the little decorative deer.

Stove is neat. Love the designs and the glass feature. You could use an extension as a chimney on a hot tent so double up on use

Just watching the intro with rain pouring on tent, really made me want to go camping. I’ve never actually done it but would love to. Has to be really cold and really wet. Unfortunately, I have permeant tinnitus, in both ears so I doubt I’d sleep well but the overall experience, would be great.